Olga Fedorova

Lomonosov Moscow State University | MSU · Department of General and Comparative Linguistics

Speech disfluencies are a notable component of natural discourse production and comprehension that may play a role of signals that control the flow of communication. Using task-based functional MRI, we examined how brain functional connectivity changes when listeners encounter a disfluency. Participants listened to fragments of audio recordings of...

Although working memory (WM) is crucial for intellectual abilities, not much is known about its brain underpinnings, especially the structural connectivity. We used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to look across the whole brain for the white matter integrity correlates of the individual differences in the reading span (verbal WM capacity during read...

Although working memory (WM) is crucial for intellectual abilities, not much is known about its brain underpinnings, especially the structural connectivity. We used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to look across the whole brain for the white matter integrity correlates of the individual differences in the reading span (verbal WM capacity during read...

In modern linguistics and psycholinguistics speech disfluencies in real fluent speech are a well-known phenomenon. But it's not still clear which components of brain systems are involved into its comprehension in a listener's brain. In this paper we provide a pilot neuroimaging study of the possible neural correlates of speech disfluencies percepti...

The paper addresses the overall distribution of speech disfluencies in Russian spoken monologic discourse: basing on corpus data, we investigate qualitatively and quantitatively how disfluencies of different types group (or do not group) with each other and how isolated disfluencies and their sequences are sandwiched with periods of fluent speech i...

The present survey focuses on the phenomenon of referential ambiguity, or referential conflict, i.e., the discourse situation in which two or more referents are activated high enough to be chosen the antecedent of a reduced referring expression. While permanent ambiguity occurs occasionally and is quite uncommon, potential ambiguity is pervasive in...

We analysed how syntactic flexibility influences sentence production in two different languages-English and Russian. In Experiment 1, speakers were instructed to produce as many structurally different descriptions of transitive-event pictures as possible. Consistent with the syntactically more flexible Russian grammar, Russian participants produced...

Two experiments used an elicited speech-production paradigm to explore children's acquisition of noun case-marking inflections. Russian (N = 24, 2;10— 4;6 years) and Serbian children (N = 24, 2;10—4;11) were asked to produce prepositional phrases requiring genitive or dative inflections of masculine and feminine, familiar and novel, simplex (vaza [...

This paper documents the occurrence of form variability through diminutive `wordplay', and examines whether this variability facilitates or hinders morphology acquisition in a richly inflected language. First, in a longitudinal speech corpus of eight Russian mothers conversing with their children (1.6-3.6), and with an adult, the use of diminutive...

Our previous research showed that Russian children commit fewer gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns than with their simplex counterparts. Experiment 1 replicates this finding with Russian children (N = 24, mean 3;7, range 2;10-4;6). Gender agreement was recorded from adjective usage as children described animal pictures given just their n...

Gender agreement elicitation was used with Russian children to examine how diminutives common in Russian child-directed speech affect gender learning. Forty-six children (2;9-4;8) were shown pictures of familiar and of novel animals and asked to describe them after hearing their names, which all contained regular morphophonological cues to masculin...

as well as from,the comments,on the abstract,and,the paper,by four anonymous,reviewers,for CSSP. All remaining mistakes are, of course, ours. Igor Yanovich was partly supported during the research reported,in the paper,by the National Science Foundation,under Grant No. BCS-0418311 to B.H. Partee and V. Borschev, which is gratefully acknowledged.